Saturday, 5 December 2009

Bigotry

Talk on corners

Oil on canvas 60 x 60cm, 2007

I hate discussions on politics, or religion. And as my friends will tell you, I will not discuss either subjects in a bar. So it was disconcerting to me when a friend, who is a bar tenant, and Swedish, told me that when an Englishman came into his bar, and ordered a pint of Guinness, he did not paint the Irish emblem, the shamrock, on the foam of his ale in fear of offending the man.

My friend, I said I think that the English have now gone past that period of bigotry.

Art

The viewing of art and what you see is a personal experience.We all see different styles with differing views. I may see Picasso as the greatest artist of the 20th Century, you may say Hockney.The point is that you are embracing art.To me, an analogy of art would be similar to comparing viewing art to women. If we all saw women with the same eye, it would indeed be a very boring world.